Word: underclasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black relations. Race remains near the surface of American life, but it is almost always publicly viewed through narrow prisms: a legal wrangle over affirmative action, a political campaign, an isolated incident of racial violence. Sharp disagreements about the origins and implications of the alarming growth of the black underclass and fears of drug-related crime have widened a gulf of mutual incomprehension between the races. Even in private discourse, whites and blacks have lost the capacity to talk to each other honestly about the subject that divides them more than any other...
Americans should not accept the current unjust and impractical scheme that divides our society, wastes billions of taxpayers' dollars, perpetuates the existence of a permanent underclass and masquerades as advancing the best interests of minorities and society as a whole...
...Black underclass, a group that has been deprived of hope and told to believe that it cannot succeed, no matter how hard it tries, Fallows urges the implementation of conservative solutions like workfare and education vouchers. As for those inner-city schools that repeatedly fail to install confidence or discipline in students, Fallows seems to put out a call for Joe Clark, the New Jersey principal who is known for walking around while carrying a baseball bat and a bullhorn...
BUSH'S inability or unwillingness to translate promising rhetoric into tangible policy can be seen on other domestic fronts as well. Relying on some vague "thousands points of light", Bush has also done virtually nothing of consequence to help the homeless and the "underclass" in America's major urban areas...
...happy to read your article "Between Two Worlds" on middle-class blacks ((LIVING, March 13)). Successful blacks increase the prosperity of America. The underclass is everyone's problem, and with an integrated and unified society we can all help solve...